In 1852 Robert Angus Smith published a detailed report of the chemistry of rain in a large area around the city of Manchester, England, noting that the closer one came to town, the more the city air would become increasingly acidic.
that the closer one came to town, the more the city air would become increasingly acidic
that the city air became increasingly acidic the closer one came to town
that coming closer to town, the city air became increasingly acidic
that the more the city air became increasingly acidic, the closer one was to town
the city air becoming increasingly acidic as one would come closer to town
We need the word "that" following "noting", so (E) is wrong.
Choices (B) & (C) don't have the form, so they are wrong.
Choice (D) follows the idiom correctly, but the order is strange --- it almost seems to imply that making the air more acidic would cause us to move closer to Manchester. That's not the intended meaning, and it doesn't really make sense.
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